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i will move the nylons when i get back in there to clean - great idea to get them more air flow!

biggest happy dance EVER - my NITRITES ARE GOING UP!!!!!!!!!!!! finally :D  ammonia still holding steady at 4ppm, but the fish are all active, happy looking, and begging for food regularly (they're only getting a little bit once/day)!!!   so glad i can clean the tank in a few days and not fret...

okay... so i haven't changed the water since friday 7/19... i've added more than necessary: seachem bacteria (7/17), tetrasafe bacteria and api bacteria (7/19), and dr. tims bacteria (7/22) - each of these was WAY more than 80 gallon treatment and i dumped the whole thing in...   i've seen 0...

i still have cycled media from the tank from before... i'm not sure anyone can donate enough media to me to really make a difference... i had a 29gal before and cycling it was fairly simple, i never realized just how hard it would be to cycle this one!  i have ordered some dr. tims, will be here...

i may have to get a different conditioner... although my tap water comes out at 1ppm for ammonia, so there's just plain no way i'm going to get it below that... i've now added 3 different brands of bacteria and ordered some dr. tim's as well.  at this point, i'm just hoping SOMETHING takes and...

well, this strain of bacteria is doing absolutely NOTHING.  50% water change going again now... will go buy some of the tetra safe start, can get that locally... fish still look good, but still reading 0 nitrites and after 48 hours, the ammonia is about 3ppm :(

50% water change yesterday, ammonia level still at 1ppm at that time... woke up today, still at 1ppm - no sign of nitrites yet though... have filters off (added bacteria to them) until tomorrow, all lighting off, and poured the bacteria all over the decor as much as possible!!!

definitely no bacteria working yet... i'm in process of changing about 50% water - i'll take it down as low as the fish seem able to tolerate, i have lots of air movement in there but the filters will be off a few hours... i got the seachem version of bacteria - they didn't have dr. tims or the...

thank you - i'll do a partial water change after i get some more testing equipment... i have a sink fill/drain adapter, so the changes actually aren't too terrible!  i'll also look at the dr. tim's!   i feel bad for the fish, but they were in terrible shape before this... hoping to clear this up...

this is my first time to this forum, i'm hoping to get a reasonable solution here...   first of all, the reason my 80 gallon aquarium is cycling is MY OWN FAULT... and i suspected i'd throw it into cycle...   so, i inherited an 80 gallon tall aquarium from my mom when she passed away in march...